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Huge, beautiful mystery JM? *pics*

10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago

At Hershey Gardens, Pennsylvania. It has the branch structure of both a lace leaf and broadleaf JM in my opinion. From a distance it looks surely lace leaf but then as you get closer, especially the leaves..maybe not. The gardens have many JM maples, many over 80 years old. Many lacelaf, many not. This particular one was waaaay ahead of any others in terms of leafing out. No others have. The leaves were emerging a yellowish orange almost pinkish color. It was gorgeous. I actually asked a arborist that worked there about it, but she said when she started at the gardens 20 years ago, the records were gone. She said she always wondered about the maple too bc it was her favorite. Shebdid say it was NOT a laceleaf. Could it be a seedling? Who knows. Anyways onto the pics. It's probably 8' high and 15' wide.

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